SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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indentured servants and slaves
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farmers
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fishing
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the early 1600s, indentured servants did much of the hard work on plantations. As the number of plantations grew, however, southern planters began to use enslaved Africans as laborers. More and more enslaved Africans were brought to North America during the 1600s and 1700s.
Detailed explanation-2: -An individual who owned a plantation was known as a planter. Historians of the antebellum South have generally defined “planter” most precisely as a person owning property (real estate) and 20 or more slaves.
Detailed explanation-3: -The wealthy plantation owners were families that were slave owners. They made their money by making the slaves to do their work and get much profit in return. Their population was only about 1, 700 but was the highest class in the southern colonies. Slavery played a role in all the southern colonies.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Upper South: Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and the Deep South, including South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, are where most large southern plantations were located.